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when she seen that her mother been working as a maid and then as a teenage prostitute so according to her in 1930 age of 15 to keep her mother from being evicted she sang Body andsoul in the Harlem club.

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She was already singing for tips in nightclubs when she was "discovered" in 1933 by talent scout John Hammond. This lead to her recording career.

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